DeSantis Builds Lead over Trump in Latest New Hampshire Poll

In the first independent poll of the Granite State since the midterms, the Florida governor’s support grew while the former president’s declined.

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Left: Florida governor Ron DeSantis in Tampa, Fla., August 24, 2022. Right: Then-president Donald Trump in New York City in 2019.

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With twelve months to go until New Hampshire’s 2024 Republican presidential primary, Florida governor Ron DeSantis leads Donald Trump by twelve points — 42 percent to 30 percent — in a new Granite State poll.

The survey, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center from January 19 to 23 and released on Thursday, is the first independent poll of the first-in-the-nation 2024 GOP primary conducted since the 2022 midterm elections, in which DeSantis scored a resounding 19-point reelection victory in Florida while Trump-backed Senate candidates underperformed and cost the GOP control of the upper chamber.

John McCormack

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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